Our Collective Becoming is a sonic and conceptual engagement with gold, narrated from the perspective of the material itself. The work interweaves historical references—most notably the South American El Dorado narrative—with questions of mythology, technology, and ecological responsibility.​

During the exhibition period, two performances took place in which performers embodied gold in different states, tracing its trajectory from geological formation through extraction and trade to iconization. For the remainder of the exhibition, the sound piece was continuously accessible as a headphone-based work.​

Within the sound composition, gold is treated as a material with its own history—one that has been intertwined with human development over long periods of time and repeatedly instrumentalized as a resource for wealth, power, and destruction. At the same time, the work incorporates Indigenous perspectives from present-day Colombia, in which gold was historically not understood primarily as money or property, but as a ritual material for offerings and religious practices. These perspectives are considered, among others, in relation to the Muisca, whose history and cultural continuities are inscribed within colonial and extractive regimes of violence.​

For the installation, I prepared and dyed textiles using carob, whose seeds are historically connected to the term “carat” as a unit of weight for gold and diamonds. This material-based gesture links measurement, value, and resource extraction, rendering more legible the tensions between resource use, technological processes, and ecological consequences.